RE: XP--screen length--startup.int

["Marc O'Connor" marc@xxxxxxxx]

Adel

Lines=25 is the old DOS standard (in full screen mode)
Another setting I have used is to set mode con lines=50 and sl=44 in my
DISPLAY.PRN. The cursor won't disappear, but I think it is not as nice to
read in a full screen mode.

Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adel Darwish
Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2003 10:42 a.m.
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XP--screen length--startup.int

Marc
I tried this command with xp, it made it shorter. I tried it with lines=60
and it is ok. The problem is that the text itself disappears after 21 lines,
although the screen is fully open and two thirds are empty.
Then I found the following command ( you must insert it in the startup
file ) BC default sl=60 [ or you can change it to 50 if you like ] but no
spaces between sl,=& value.
Try it folks.
The only problems is that cursor moves faster down below the screen
disappears from text, text start moving up, and it is hard to find cursor.
Although I set mine as a large big square.,
By the way cursor big size in the startup file is : BC default cr=118 [
again no spaces]
Adel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc O'Connor" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: RE: XP--screen length--startup.int


> One thing to try is to start up the DOS window and enter the following
> command:
> Mode con lines=25 
>
> It should form a more 'normal' looking window.
> I have this command in a batch file for running XY3.57 under XP.
>
> Marc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judith Davidsen
> Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2003 8:04 a.m.
> To: xylist
> Subject: XP--screen length--startup.int
>
> In preparation for buying a new computer, I'd been saving a whole ton of
> exchanges on the issue of XY screenlength in a DOS box and, as I recall,
> attendant exhanges about loading startup.int.
>
> Then the new computer arrived and, in the rush of it all, I managed to
> misplace and/or destroy a whole mess of mail...Just spent 3 hours
> searching, on the off chance, but no.
>
> So...
>
> XyDos 4.018
> XP Home ed.
> Dell Dimension 4600
> Dell flat-panel monitor
>
> On each boot, Xy in the box opens in about the top 40% of the screen.
>
> Under Advanced/Preferences, I can expand it to full screen using "screen
> hardware settings" but along the painfully long route I get the message:
>    "Settings.dfl exists but is not loaded. The menus cannot locate it
> if it has been renamed." [It has not been renamed.]
>
> A little further along, another message:
>    "For these settings to take effect the next time you start
> Xywrite, you must add this statement to the startup file: BC Load
> 96,72settings.dfl"
>
> What the settings line in my startup.int says is:
>  BX LOAD C:\XY4\SETTINGS.DFLQ2 FF ;*;
>
> I am loathe to change anything on the settings line of startup without
> some advice.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Judith Davidsen
>
>